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See the AARTH Calendar for upcoming programs
Can Gene Therapy Cure AIDS?
In a study published today in Science Translational Medicine, researchers from
the City of Hope National Medical Center, a medical research institute in
Duarte, California, describe how they removed immune stem cells from four cancer
patients also infected with HIV, stitched in genes to outwit the virus, and
transplanted the fortified cells back into the men.
Encouraging HIV Testing and Treatment for African
Americans
People of Color: HIV/AIDS Stigma and Access to Care
This tutorial provides an in-depth overview of the 2006 CDC
recommendations for routine HIV screening in health care settings. The following
topics are reviewed and discussed in this program:
HIV epidemiology in the U.S.
Definitions related to HIV screening and testing
Rationale for routine HIV screening
The 2006 CDC recommendations
Potential barriers to routine HIV screening
Diagnostic tests, and counseling and linking to care
Each section of the tutorial is supplemented with an interactive
self-assessment and references (with links). This program provides for 1.5 free
CME and CNE credits. This project was funded under cooperative agreement
U65/PS000821 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Living Healthier with Chronic Conditions
Workshop Features: The workshop enhances specific chronic condition patient
education programs by offering a variety of skills and coping techniques that
are designed to fit the needs of the participants. The workshop assists
individuals living with a variety of chronic conditions, including but not
limited to the following:
 Asthma
Arthritis
Cancer
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
COPD
Congestive Heart Failure
Depression
Diabetes
Emphysema
Fibromyalgia
Heart Disease
HIV/AIDS
Lung Disease
Multiple Sclerosis
Obesity
Parkinson's
Stroke
Register today
Health Materials in Haitian Creole and English
Online health resources and information for individuals who pay cash for
health care services by choice or lack of adequate insurance coverage.
WHY AARTH?
African Americans have the highest health disparities of all ethnic
groups. For a summary from the CDC,
click here. Leading causes of death in the US for African
Americans include cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes.
One of the fastest growing diseases affecting this population is HIV/AIDS. AARTH places special emphasis on educating people of African descent
about the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on the family and society.
The Prayer Shawl Ministry invites followers of Christ to share
their spiritual gifts, natural talents and abilities to create shawls of
compassion for others in need. The intent is to comfort and give solace to
those who receive the shawl. It wraps the wearer in a warm tangible creation of
God’s love.
Army of Women Against Breast Cancer
 The
Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation and the Avon Foundation for Women launch the Love/Avon Army of Women
with two revolutionary goals:
* To recruit 1,000,000 women of every age and ethnicity, including breast cancer
survivors and women at high-risk for the disease, to participate in research
that will eradicate breast cancer.
* To challenge the scientific community to expand
breast cancer prevention research conducted on healthy women.
Join us in this movement that will take us beyond a cure by creating new
opportunities to study what causes breast cancer—and how to prevent it.
Register Now!
Religious
Coalition for Reproductive Choice - Pro-Faith ~ Pro-Family ~ Pro-Choice
The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice brings the moral power of
religious communities to ensure reproductive choice through education and
advocacy. The Coalition seeks to give clear voice to the reproductive issues of
people of color, those living in poverty, and other underserved populations.
RCRC was founded in 1973 to safeguard the newly won constitutional right to
abortion. The Coalition founders were clergy and lay leaders from mainstream
religions. The
founders believed that there would be at most a ten-year struggle to secure the
right to choose. In fact the struggle is far from over.
While our member organizations are religiously and theologically diverse, they
are unified in the commitment to preserve reproductive choice as a basic part of
religious liberty.
Our rational, healing perspective looks beyond the bitter abortion debate to
seek solutions to pressing problems such as unintended pregnancy, the spread of
HIV/AIDS, inadequate health care and health insurance, and the severe reduction
in reproductive health care services. We support access to sex education, family
planning and contraception, affordable child care and health care, and adoption
services as well as safe, legal, abortion services, regardless of income. We
work for public policies that ensure the medical, economic, and educational
resources necessary for healthy families and communities that are equipped to
nurture children in peace and love.
We have developed a game, posters, and flyers to support the new menu
labeling regulation in King County. We hope to make it easier for people to use
the nutrition information now available in chain restaurants. to preview the
materials you can access them on our
website.
Go to our Training for Congregations
page to learn more.
Click here for a
poster.
National Action Network (NAN) has launched a five-year "I
Choose Life" campaign, in partnership with social, civic, civil
rights organizations and the medical community that will address
five major interrelated health concerns and disparities facing
the African American community: diabetes, heart disease and high
blood pressure, HIV/AIDS and STDs, mental health,
and obesity. NAN has developed a vital, inclusive and workable
cooperative project between the African American community and a
network of health providers, advocates, activists, community
leaders and organizations, clergy, celebrities, governmental
allies, persons directly affected, as well as those vulnerable.
Visit the website at
www.ichoose-life.com.
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Public Service Message: "I GOT TESTED";;
Join AARTH Ministry and these African American faith
community leaders who commit to their congregations to stop the spread
of HIV/AIDS with the message, “I got tested.” Click
here to view a 30 second Public Service
Announcement urging all Americans to get tested for HIV.
- Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, The Abyssinian Baptist
Church, NY, NY
- Bishop T.D. Jakes, The Potter’s House, Dallas, TX
- Rev. Dr. Renee Washington Gardner, Memorial Baptist
Church, NY, NY
- Rev. Lora Hargrove-Chapman, Mt. Calvary Baptist
Church, Rockville, MD
- Rev. Edwin C. Sanders, II, Metropolitan
Interdenominational Church, Nashville, TN.
Spread the word about the importance of HIV testing by
showing this PSA at your meetings and conferences or by posting it on your
Web site.
AARTH team put on their walking shoes at Lifelong AIDS Alliance 2007 Annual AIDS
Walk in memory of Reginald Diggs
Heart Truth Campaign for African American Women
AARTH Ministry is partnering with the American Heart
Association/American Stroke Association to help increase awareness among African
Americans (women in particular) about heart disease risks, stroke prevention and
maintaining a healthy heart. Heart related conditions, such as high blood
pressure, cholesterol, obesity, and stroke represent the highest causes of
illnesses and deaths among African Americans. You can help change this in your
congregation by joining us in sponsoring the Heart Truth Campaign in your
congregations.
Receive Heart Truth Campaign materials online.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Remember the "3" steps STR
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the
lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain
damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke .
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple
questions:
S Ask the individual to SMILE.
T Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE
SENTENCE (Coherently)
(i.e. It is sunny out today)
R Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 999/911 immediately
and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
Washingtonians will save up to
60% on their prescription drugs
OLYMPIA – Governor Chris Gregoire introduced a new,
state-sponsored prescription drug discount card that will save Washingtonians an
average of 20% on brand-name drugs and 60% on generic drugs. The card will be
available to all Washington residents, regardless of age or income.
“We want to get the news out to everyone in the state who is struggling with
high prescription drug costs,” said Governor Gregoire. “There is help. Even if
you don’t qualify for other discount programs, this card will save you money on
prescription drugs.”
The Washington Prescription Drug Program card is available now. Enrollment forms
are available on-line at www.rx.wa.gov or by calling 1-800-913-4146.
 Are
you in the health care profession?
Do you need your HIV/AIDS certification Training?
AARTH
Ministries
provides certification training on HIV/AIDS
for public and private agencies as well as individuals. We use the KNOW HIV
Prevention Education. Click
here for a brochure.
Women's Health Assessment Toolkit--get health statistics about women and
girls!
Join us. Be the generation
that ends AIDS
¡Únete! Juntos
podemos ser la generación que detendrá la epidemia del SIDA
Help Find Out How We Can Stay Healthy!
Doctors cannot always explain why one person gets cancer and
another does not. Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have
studied patterns of cancer to learn about "risk factors" — things in our lives
that may increase our chances (or risk) of developing cancer. Risk factors may
include a person's weight, the amount of exercise they usually get or the type
of foods they eat.
To better understand how foods relate to cancer risk, scientists at the
Hutchinson Center want to study the biological markers (biomarkers) of foods
that people eat.
The Hutch will test 88 men and women between 18 and 45 years old and will give
you all your food to eat and drink (except water) for two 28-day feeding
periods.
You will benefit from this study by receiving a nutrient analysis of your usual
food intake and the results of the DEXA scan at the end of the study. You will
also be helping us in our research on cancer prevention. This research may
benefit society in the future by developing recommendations about diets that may
prevent cancer.
After you complete the entire study, you will receive $750. Because of the
study's design, you must complete both feeding periods before receiving payment.
For complete information click
here.
PROSTATE CANCER WORKSHOP FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN: Let's Talk
About It!
We can bring our presentation to your men's group in King County
The Let's Talk About It!" Prostate Cancer Education Program is for African
American men to give them information about prostate cancer. African American
men have the highest rates of prostate cancer in the country. One out of
every four African American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer by the
time they reach age 60. This is a curable disease but early detection is
essential. In the early stages of the disease, there are often no symptoms.
This is a free program. Valuable, updated information about prostate cancer and
treatments will be available at these 2 hr workshops. We are also looking
for women's groups to form to help with outreach to men.
For more information: please contact: Kevin Henry, 206 954-8024 or at
reigningman@aol.com. Email: cmch@cschc.org,
http://www.multi-culturalhealth.org, 206-461-6910
Founded by 100 Black Men, this program is sponsored by the Center for
MultiCultural Health Promoting Health and Well-Being in Diverse Cultures
TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World
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Pernessa C. Seele,
the founder of The Balm in Gilead, has received one of America's highest recognitions. We are
grateful for her extraordinary vision, dedication, leadership and hard work in
all that she does for the people of the world.
Please read
what Time Magazine has to say about the Founder/CEO. |
Seattle
Times Reports:
Black Churches Unite to Raise
HIV/AIDS Awareness
The Seattle Times
reported on AARTH and the Faith Community Covenant. See the
article.
HIV/AIDS
Church Outreach: Faith Community Covenant
On
March 2, 2006, pastors
in the Seattle area signed the
HIV/AIDS Church Outreach: Faith
Community Covenant
Rev. Carl Livingston,
Jr, Grace United Methodist; Rev. Dr. Amos Landry, Peoples Institutional
Baptist Church; Rev. Gwendolyn Hall,
Sojourner Truth Ministries; Rev.
Gwendolyn Coates, God Answers Prayer
Ministries; Rev. Robert L. Manaway, Sr.,
Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church;
Rev. Herbert J. Carey, Martin Luther
King, Jr. Memorial Baptist Church; Rev.
Carey G. Anderson, First A.M.E.
Church; Rev. Zachary K. Bruce, Sr.,
Freedom Church of Seattle; Rev. Reginald
Diggs, Sanctuary Ministries; Rev. Mary
Diggs-Hobson, African Americans Reach
and
Teach Health Ministry
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TELLING MOM
was one of the hardest things Reginald Diggs ever had to do. He was infected
with HIV. He'd been living on the "down low," having sex with other men against
the teachings of his church and his mom, his life-long comfort and strength. Would she
still love him?
Sex,
spirituality and secrecy are a tangle for men on the "down low," and one of the
reasons (along with poverty, drug use, incarceration and poor access to health
care) for soaring HIV-infection rates among African Americans. Consider:
• African
Americans are 12 percent of the U.S. population, but about half of the million
people infected with HIV.
• In King
County, blacks are 5 percent of the population but 22 percent of the HIV cases.
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African-American men are infected with HIV at seven times the rate of white men;
African-American women at 19 times the rate of white women. In both cases,
transmission is mostly through sex with men.
By
coincidence (she'd call it divine intervention), Reginald's mother, Mary
Diggs-Hobson, had...
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